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The 70th Cannes Film Festival, taking place from May 17th to 28th, will screen Dubravka Turić’s short film Cherries in the Directors’ Fortnight (“Quinzaine des réalisateurs”) programme, while the Croatian Audiovisual Centre will again, this year, promote Croatian cinematography at the Film Market.

On Sunday, April 30th, the premiere of the Indian blockbuster Fan will be held during the Tišina molim! (Quiet Please!) event taking place in Cinema Sloboda in Dubrovnik. Part of the film was shot in the city of Dubrovnik in March, 2015, with support from the incentives programme.

Episodes of the AMC Studios anthology television series “The Terror,” a supernatural thriller inspired by the mysterious disappearance of a Royal naval expedition crew in 1847 who are searching for the Northwest Passage, will start shooting in April on the island of Pag.

As a part of Francophone Celebrations Upstream (En amont du fleuve), by director Marion Hänsel, will premiere in Zadar and Zagreb. The whole film was shot on location in Croatia, and the premieres are scheduled in Zadar on March 8th at 7 pm in Puppet Theatre Zadar, and on March 9th at 6 pm in Cinema Tuškanac, Zagreb.

Lionsgate production Robin Hood: Origins, directed by Otto Bathurst and starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Jamie Dornan and Eve Hewson, started filming on Monday, February 20th in Dubrovnik. It is the biggest Hollywood production to be shot in Croatia to date, with Dubrovnik transformed in legendary city of Nottingham.

The Indian film Prisoner no. 150, whose dance scenes were shot in Croatia in November, 2016, is one of the most watched films in India this month, while simultaneously screening in cinemas across the globe.

During the European Film Awards ceremony held December 10th in Wroclaw, Poland (European Culture Capital, 2016), new film professional members were accepted into the Academy, including sound engineer/tone master Hrvoje Petek and costume designer Zorana Meić.

Keshet International (KI) has picked up global distribution rights to the new eagerly anticipated Croatian crime drama series, The Paper. Produced by Drugi Plan and yet to air on HTV1, The Paper (12 x 50’) is a dark cocktail of political corruption, power struggles, crime and betrayal.

Croatia's candidate for next year's motion picture Academy Award in the foreign language film category will be Zrinko Ogresta's On the Other Side, 15 representatives of the Croatian Filmmakers’ Association (HDFD) decided by secret vote on Tuesday. Three titles competed: Ungiven by Branko Schmidt, Shooting Stars by Ivan-Goran Vitez and On the Other Side by Zrinko Ogresta.